Greenlight planet nairobi, kenya
UX Research Human Centred Design project. On a University visit to Nairobi, Kenya I worked with Greenlight Planet where I interviewed potential users of Sunking Solar powered lamps in rural villages.
Responsibilities: UX Research, User Interviews, Affinity mapping, Storyboarding, Ideation, Testing Prototypes
Tools: Sketching, Interviewing
Duration: 2 weeks, July 2016
PROJECT PHASES
Research
Whlist travelling to Nairobi, Kenya on a University design visit, I worked with Greenlight Planet, learnt about Human Centred Design and carried out interviews in the rural areas of Kenya.
User Interviews
I conducted interviews in rural villages where I asked potential users their thoughts on the existing Sunking solar panel lamps. I also learnt more about the day to day lifestyle living outside of the city.
Ideation
I mapped insights gained from visiting the rural villages and created prototypes that were later taken onto the streets to ask local people their thoughts on the ideas generated.
Gaining insights from users of Sunking products allowed me as a designer to understand what problems users often faced and what could be done to improve the existing products.
Main insights
Day light vs darknes
As Kenya is on the equator there is the same amount of day light hours to night time.
commute
For many school children living in the rural villages it is a very long commute to school.
Dangerous
As common in most countries there is risk walking at night from attacks.
homework
Once getting home from school there are many chores that need to be done before starting homework. As it gets dark many students that live in rural villages tend to complete homework by kerosene lamp.
Development
Storyboard prototypes
Storyboard presenting a marketing method to generate more Sunking customers.
Outcome
Using the insights gathered from the ideation and affinity mapping session. I chose to focus on the school commute and how it could be made safer for students.
A Sunking backpack which has the solar panel incorporated to charge up the Pico lamp on the way to school.
Storyboard presenting a student using the Pico lamp on the backpack strap for light when it is dark walking home from school. Once home after finishing chores the Pico lamp can be mounted on its stand ready for the student to do their homework which is safer then using a kerosene lamp.
I presented the prototypes to the CEO of Greenlight planet as a potential marketing method to gain more customers while keeping a focus on the end user in order to provide a solution to help keep students safe when commuting to and from school.
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